soxr-code/INSTALL

SoX Resampler Library       Copyright (c) 2007-16 robs@users.sourceforge.net

INSTALLATION GUIDE CONTENTS

* Standard build
* Build customisation
* Cross-compilation
* Integration with other build systems
* Run-time configuration



STANDARD BUILD

1. Prerequisites:

    Before you can build this library, you need to have available on your
    system:

    * A C-compiler with 64-bit integer support and, optionally, OpenMP, SIMD.

    * A 'make' utility (most compiler installations already have one of these).

    * CMake: https://cmake.org/download/


2. Build:

    At a command prompt, change directory (`cd') to the one containing this
    file, then enter:

        go                          (on MS-Windows with nmake)
    or
        ./go                        (on Unix-like systems)

    This should build the library and run a few sanity tests.


3. Installation:

    Note that this step may need to be performed by a system
    administrator.  Enter:

        nmake install               (on MS-Windows)
    or
        cd Release; make install    (on Unix-like)


4. Preparation for use:

    To use the library you may need to set up appropriate paths to the
    library and its header file in your development environment.


5. Installation test

    To test the installation, build and run some of the example programmes
    (see examples/README).



BUILD CUSTOMISATION

If it is necessary to customise the build, then steps 2 and 3 above may be
substituted as follows.  Change directory to the one containing this file,
then enter commands along the lines of:

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake [OPTIONS] ..
    make
    make test
    sudo make install

To list help on the available options, enter:

    cmake -LH ..

Options, if given, should be preceded with '-D', e.g.

    cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF ..



Resampling engines

As available on a given system, options for including up to five resampling
‘engines’ are available (per above) as follows:

    WITH_CR32: for constant-rate HQ resampling,
    WITH_CR32S: SIMD variant of previous,
    WITH_CR64: for constant-rate VHQ resampling,
    WITH_CR64S: SIMD variant of previous,
    WITH_VR32: for variable-rate HQ resampling.

By default, these options are all set to ON.

When both SIMD and non-SIMD engine variants are included, run-time selection
is automatic (based on CPU capability) for x86 CPUs, and can be automatic for
ARM CPUs if the 3rd-party library `libavutil' is available at libsoxr
build-time.



CROSS-COMPILATION

E.g. targeting a Linux ARM system:

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Linux \
          -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc \
          ..
or, also building the examples (one of which uses C++):

    cmake -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Linux \
          -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc \
          -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=arm-linux-gnueabi-g++ \
          -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=1 \
          ..

E.g. with Mingw (Linux host), using a tool-chain file:

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=~/Toolchain-x86_64-mingw-w64-mingw32.cmake \
          -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install \
          ..
    make

where ~/Toolchain-x86_64-mingw-w64-mingw32.cmake might contain:

    SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Windows)
    SET(CMAKE_C_COMPILER /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc)
    SET(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++)
    SET(CMAKE_RC_COMPILER /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres)
    SET(CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gfortran)
    SET(CMAKE_AR:FILEPATH /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar)
    SET(CMAKE_RANLIB:FILEPATH /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib)
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32)
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER)
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY)
    SET(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)
    SET(QT_BINARY_DIR /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin /usr/bin)
    SET(Boost_COMPILER -gcc47)



INTEGRATION WITH OTHER BUILD SYSTEMS

Autotools-based systems might find it useful to create a file called
`configure' in the directory containing this file, consisting of the line:
    cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF .
(or with other build options as required).

For MS Visual C++, see msvc/README.



RUN-TIME CONFIGURATION

The libsoxr API structure ‘soxr_runtime_spec_t’ allows application developers
to optimise some aspects of libsoxr’s operation for a particular application.
However, since optimal performance might depend on an individual end-user’s
run-time system and the end-user’s preferences, environment variables are
available to set (override) run-time parameters as follows:

    Env. variable        Equivalent soxr_runtime_spec_t item
    ------------------   -----------------------------------
    SOXR_COEFS_SIZE      coef_size_kbytes
    SOXR_COEF_INTERP     SOXR_COEF_INTERP_xxx
    SOXR_LARGE_DFT_SIZE  log2_large_dft_size
    SOXR_MIN_DFT_SIZE    log2_min_dft_size
    SOXR_NUM_THREADS     num_threads

Additionally, the SOXR_USE_SIMD32 and SOXR_USE_SIMD64 environment variables
may be used to override automatic selection (or to provide manual selection
where automatic selection is not available) between SIMD and non-SIMD engine
variants.  (Which engine is selected for a specific configuration of libsoxr
can be checked using example #3, which reports it.)